Mini-Writing Contest # 4 — July 23 – July 28
Hey everyone! Thanks for all of your entries from last week.
It was great reading through all of your answers to those 5 questions.
So let's get started with Mini-Writing Contest #4! This week is all about acrostics.
An acrostic is a poem or a piece of prose where the first letter of each line will spell out a word or a simple message. It can be about anything and everything that's interesting to you, like the name of a flower, a person, or a favourite object. Here's an example:
S wimming in sunshine
U nder umbrellas
M aking meetings
M oonlit meanderings
E vening events
R estful reading
Now try writing your own using some of your favourite words. Pick your best three acrostics to submit for this contest, either one at a time or all three together.
Please keep in mind the following contest rules:
1. You have to live in Toronto to win this contest.
2. You have to provide a valid e-mail address so we can contact you if you win a prize (see privacy statement for more info)
3. Your entry must be submitted by Monday at 11:59pm to be considered to win.
4. Winners will be announced the following Tuesday.
Have fun!
Your name, your e-mail address, the books you read and your thoughts about them are your personal information. Why do we need your personal information here? Well, we want to publish your reviews, and we need your name and e-mail address to help administer the contest. The Public Libraries Act is the law that lets us do this. We'll be protecting your privacy every step of the way, but if you have any questions about how we're going to do that, you can contact TPL's Privacy & Records Management Officer, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, M4W 2G8, 416-395-5658 or by e-mail at gnettlefold@torontopubliclibrary.ca
10 thoughts on “Mini-Writing Contest # 4 — July 23 – July 28”
1.
G reat soul of India
A imed for the freedom of his country
N ational activist for his ocuntry’s rights
D etermined to succeed
H ounorable man
I n India
2.
P assion to succeed your way
O ld or young
W eilding the sword to make a change
E verything has power
R ight at your hands
3.
T edious and brave
E verything starts to change
E verything has a reason in your mind
N othing beats the feeling you are now one step into choosing your future
S oon
I can’t help but miss his kisses
M issing him giving me pink lemonade bottles etched with the words, ‘I love you’
D ear heart, stop beating, slow down
Y ou feel like a throbbing bruise deep within in my chest
I can’t stop the thoughts closing in on you
N o more, please. They’re hurting you, hurting me
G od, please stop breaking so damn easily
S weater in my bed now, instead of him
L osing lines of our conversations from my head
O nly Facebook chats will be left soon
W on’t look at those, I just can’t
L osing sleep, losing sanity, oh, why did
Y ou have to fall for him, in the first place?
deep within my chest*
Acrostics about the cottage
S moth spreading of colour
U nifying land and sky
N otoriously beautiful
S oulful expressions
E thereal
T emporary awe
S mothing borrowed
M ost summers
A round the fire
R ecollections of years gone by
S hamble their way
H opefuly around us.
M any succeed.
A ltering the flow of conversation.
L o and behold,
L aughter explodes
O ut of the crackling flames
W ishing us all many more recollections to come
T urbulent waves
U niformed purposefully
B y uncle Dan
I nglorious spectacle
N ever ending amusement
G oing to bed aching and joyous
Numero uno-
G ravity tugs at the folds of the universe
A toms colliding, slipping, spinning
L ife stirring within the cold, infinite emptiness
A steroids and meteorites cut constellations
X anthic flares erupt on the burning, pulsing skin of the Sun
Y oung nebulas rise and fall, in a shower of dust
F orgotten have we so soon?
O nce home to the boy who lived
U nder the stairs
R ightfully he belonged at Hogwarts
P erfectly normal Dursley’s
R elaxed and unsuspecting
I nstantly everything changed
V aluable little boy dropped off at their door
E ntitled to take him in, the Dursley’s took Harry,
T hough take after the Muggles of the home Harry did not
D udley Dursley was their perfect boy
R epulsive was Harry
I t took 11 years for his time to come
V erdict was made and Harry left the cupboard under the stairs for another home
E verything still began at Number 4, Privet Drive
S eas turned to blood
U nder a dome of fire
N ight waited impatiently behind the curtain
S lowly and steadily the Sun sank
E very rooftop bathed in liquid gold
T angerine highways
#3
S traw mats, hot in the
A fternoon Sun
I deologies spawn soldiers
G unshots and fireworks
O ld photographs of lost sons
N ineteen seventy-five
Thanks for all your entries.
It was great reading through all of them.
This week’s winners are Jade and SRC. Congratulations!
Sorry — I made a small mistake. This week’s winners are Hannah Vella and Jade.
Congratulations!